Glendo Raid

The Glendo Raid was a Sioux attack on a wagon train of American settlers that occurred in 1866. A wagon train of Americans from Fort Laramie heading off trail through Sioux country was ambushed by the Sioux Indians, and the Native Americans massacred all of the settlers and soldiers, including women and children. The massacre was carried out in response to American atrocities against the natives and continued encroachment into naive lands, and the Americans saw the massacre as proof that the natives were savages that needed to be tamed by the white man.